Using household rosters from survey data to estimate all-cause excess death rates during the COVID pandemic in India

Malani, Anup; Ramachandran, Sabareesh

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102988

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“…By the end of January 2023, Bitcoin's total market capitalization had reached nearly US $ 450 billion, accounting for approximately 42% of the market share. 2 Additionally, the Bitcoin futures contract (BTC) was successfully launched by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) on December (44). Numerous studies have highlighted the benefits of using Bitcoin, including improving investors' risk-return profile (45), offering potential safe-haven characteristics (46), and enabling decentralized payment and transaction facilitation (27).…”

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“…, , … n ) are jointly equal to zero according to a χ 2 statistic and its significance level. For equation (2), the null hypothesis of the Granger causality test is that the coefficients of ( α α 12 2…”

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confidence: 99%

“…During the VAR modelling, a key step is to verify the stationary of the selected variables based on the Augmented Dickey-Fuller unit root test (ADF test). The other step is to determine the lag length represented by n in equations ( 1) and (2). Panel A of Table 2 shows that all three of the variables used in this paper are stationary, and thus appropriate for VAR modelling.…”

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“…2 and significant MSFE_adjusted statistics. This means that all predictive models have better-forecast performance than the historical average.…”

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“…Particularly, Europe and the Americas have been the most affected regions, accounting for 41 and 28%, respectively, of the global confirmed cases. Unfortunately, these staggering numbers may also understate the damage of the pandemic, especially in developing countries ( 2 ). The pandemic has become the most significant public health event since the outbreak of the 1918 flu, with substantial implications for human health, society, and global economic growth ( 3 ).…”

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The COVID-19 pandemic and Bitcoin: Perspective from investor attention

Wan

Zhu

2023

Front. Public Health

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The response of the Bitcoin market to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is an example of how a global public health crisis can cause drastic market adjustments or even a market crash. Investor attention on the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to play an important role in this response. Focusing on the Bitcoin futures market, this paper aims to investigate whether pandemic attention can explain and forecast the returns and volatility of Bitcoin futures. Using the daily Google search volume index for the “coronavirus” keyword from January 2020 to February 2022 to represent pandemic attention, this paper implements the Granger causality test, Vector Autoregression (VAR) analysis, and several linear effects analyses. The findings suggest that pandemic attention is a granger cause of Bitcoin returns and volatility. It appears that an increase in pandemic attention results in lower returns and excessive volatility in the Bitcoin futures market, even after taking into account the interactive effects and the influence of controlling other financial markets. In addition, this paper carries out the out-of-sample forecasts and finds that the predictive models with pandemic attention do improve the out-of-sample forecast performance, which is enhanced in the prediction of Bitcoin returns while diminished in the prediction of Bitcoin volatility as the forecast horizon is extended. Finally, the predictive models including pandemic attention can generate significant economic benefits by constructing portfolios among Bitcoin futures and risk-free assets. All the results demonstrate that pandemic attention plays an important and non-negligible role in the Bitcoin futures market. This paper can provide enlightens for subsequent research on Bitcoin based on investor attention sparked by public emergencies.

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“…2 and significant MSFE_adjusted statistics. This means that all predictive models have better-forecast performance than the historical average.…”

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Wan

Zhu

2023

Front. Public Health

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Analysis of anthropometric outcomes in Indian children during the COVID-19 pandemic using National Family Health Survey data

Summan,

Nandi,

Laxminarayan

2024

Commun Med

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Background Disruptions in food, health, and economic systems during the COVID-19 pandemic may have adversely affected child health. There is currently limited research on the potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on stunting, wasting, and underweight status of young children. Methods We examine the short-term associations between the pandemic and anthropometric outcomes of under-5 children (n = 232,920) in India, using data from the National Family Health Survey (2019–2021). Children surveyed after March 2020 are considered as the post-COVID group, while those surveyed earlier are considered as pre-COVID. Potential biases arising from differences in socioeconomic characteristics of the two groups are mitigated using propensity score matching methods. Results Post-COVID children surveyed in 2020 and 2021 have 1.2% higher underweight rates, 1.2% lower wasting rates, 0.1 lower height-for-age z-scores (HAZ), and 0.04 lower weight-for-height z-scores as compared with matched pre-COVID children. Post-COVID children surveyed in 2020 have 1.6%, 4.6%, and 2.4% higher stunting, underweight, and wasting rates, respectively, and 0.07 lower HAZ, as compared with matched pre-COVID children. Reductions in nutritional status are largest among children from households in the poorest wealth quintiles. Conclusions These findings indicate a trend towards a recovery in child anthropometric outcomes in 2021 after the initial post-pandemic reductions. The resilience of health and food systems to shocks such as COVID-19 should be strengthened while immediate investments are required to decrease child malnutrition and improve broader child health outcomes.

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COVID-19 pandemic, losses of livelihoods and uneven recovery in Pune, India

Mittal,

Steinert,

Vollmer

2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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This study examines the patterns of losses in livelihoods, income and consumption expenditure among slum dwellers in Pune, a city in western India, two years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. A four-round panel dataset is used for this study with two rounds collected before (in-person in 2018 and 2019) and two rounds collected after (via phone interviews in 2020 and 2022) the start of the pandemic. Although at the macro-level gross domestic product and unemployment rates had started to recover by mid-2020, the results of this study show that recovery of livelihoods among individuals living just above subsistence level has been very limited and uneven even two years after the start of the pandemic. Additionally, younger and less educated individuals are more vulnerable to welfare losses. Examining food consumption patterns, consumption of cereals recovered to pre-pandemic levels by 2022 but the consumption of fruits and vegetables remained below the 2019 level, thus having important implications for nutritional health.

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Using household rosters from survey data to estimate all-cause excess death rates during the COVID pandemic in India

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

The COVID-19 pandemic and Bitcoin: Perspective from investor attention

The COVID-19 pandemic and Bitcoin: Perspective from investor attention

Analysis of anthropometric outcomes in Indian children during the COVID-19 pandemic using National Family Health Survey data

COVID-19 pandemic, losses of livelihoods and uneven recovery in Pune, India

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